Senior Engineering Manager

SandboxAQ; Canada; On-site; CAD 310,000 - 435,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company based in Canada is looking for an Engineering Manager to oversee a data discovery team and lead the development of their innovative cybersecurity solutions. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience in software engineering and has led technical teams while remaining engaged in hands-on development. This position offers a competitive salary range of $225k - $315k per year, along with stock options and benefits, and is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Learning opportunities

Medical/dental/vision

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering roles with experience leading teams.
• Proven track record building production services from scratch.
• Experience with enterprise authentication flows and API security.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the data discovery team while coding.
• Own the roadmap & design of data ingestion facilities.
• Mentor and coach engineers on technical skills and career development.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Streaming concepts

Tools

Kotlin

Golang

Rust

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

About SandboxAQ

SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors.

We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders.

At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact.

About the Role

The Cybersecurity Group at SandboxAQ is looking for an Engineering Manager to help functionalize AQtive Guard, our groundbreaking solution for modern non-human identity and cryptography management already launching globally with major organizations like top-tier financial institutions and government agencies.

The team is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager who is strongly focused on building our team responsible for generating and ingesting data, both from our own sensors and third-party systems. This role is pivotal in advancing our security integrations to support seamless connectivity with third-party tools and other enterprise security platforms. The successful candidate will lead the technical strategy for our sensors, third-party ingestion pipeline and in general frameworks for anyone to process any kind of data, while remaining hands-on with code and architecture decisions.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and grow our data discovery team while remaining hands-on with code reviews, architecture decisions, and critical feature development.
• Own the roadmap & design of our data ingestion facilities, including our own passive network analyzer, filesystem scanner and application dynamic tracers.
• Own the developer experience end-to-end: from API design to documentation to integration, deployment guides.
• Mentor and coach engineers on both technical skills and career development while fostering a culture of quality, testing, and documentation.
• Establish and maintain engineering best practices around testing and scalability.
• Build relationships with key enterprise customers and act as their technical advocate internally.

About You

• You have 8+ years in software engineering roles with experience leading engineering teams and remaining technically hands-on.
• You have a proven track record of building and shipping production services from scratch in Rust, Golang, Python, C++, Kotlin or Java. Note that our integration services are written in Kotlin.
• You can quickly grasp streaming concepts (codecs, protocols, latency optimisation), or you already have experience in this domain.
• You've built and shipped production SDKs, APIs, or enterprise integration solutions across multiple programming languages.
• You think like a developer advocate while balancing technical excellence with business objectives and delivery timelines.
• You excel at cross-functional collaboration and can translate between technical constraints and business requirements.
• You have experience with enterprise authentication flows (OAuth, SAML), API security, and compliance requirements.
• You demonstrate strong technical leadership skills with the ability to make architectural decisions while managing and developing team members.
• You balance hands-on technical contributions with people management and strategic planning.

Our Current Stack

• Languages: Kotlin, Golang and Rust
• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes
• Developer Tools: GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, API documentation tools
• Monitoring: DataDog

The US base salary range for this full-time position is expected to be $225k - $315k per year. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. This role may be eligible for annual discretionary bonuses and equity.

SandboxAQ welcomes all.

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where we have zero tolerance for discrimination. We invest in our employees' personal and professional growth. Once you work with us, you can’t go back to normalcy because great breakthroughs come from great teams and we are the best in AI and quantum technology.

We offer competitive salaries, stock options depending on employment type, generous learning opportunities, medical/dental/vision, family planning/fertility, PTO (summer and winter breaks), financial wellness resources, 401(k) plans, and more.

Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.

Accommodations: We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in job application procedures for open roles. If you need such an accommodation, please let a member of our Recruiting team know.